Prop

Definition: Prop

Prop

Noun

1. A support placed beneath or against something to keep it from shaking or falling.

2. Any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props".

3. A propeller that rotates to push against air.

Verb

1. Support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prop" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Census

Fine Arts

Geography

Industry

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

PROP

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Synonyms: Prop

Aid

Support, sustain, uphold, prop, hold up, bolster.

Connection

Shackle, rein; (means of restraint); prop; (support).

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Support, bear, carry, hold, sustain, shoulder; hold up, back up, bolster up, shore up; uphold, upbear; prop; under prop, under pin, under set; riprap; bandage.

Crosswords: Prop

Danish (cork), Dutch (chunk, clod, electric plug, lump, plug, stopper), Scottish (a prop).

Oh, you crazy bastard! You'd prop up dead men and inspect them if you was ordered to! (The Hill; writing credit: Ray Rigby; R.S. Allen)

A simple prop to occupy my time (The One I Love; performing artist: R.E.M.)

Another prop has occupied my time (The One I Love; performing artist: R.E.M.)

Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money of them. (references; author: Mark Twain)

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Books

• COLONIAL FIRST STATE COMMERCIAL PROP TRU: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Lectures on Electrical Prop.of Materials 2/E07 (reference)

• Mind's Eye Theatre Prop Deck (Mind's Eye Theatre) (reference)

• The Pit Prop Syndicate (reference)

• The Universal Baseball Association, Inc.: J. Henry Waugh, Prop. (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Prop 65 News (reference)

• Prop 65 News C-w Prop 65 News Email Version (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Addition & Multiplication Prop of Equ (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Turbo Prop Racing (reference)

• FRAMESAVER CABLE 9162-9165 14FT PROP DB9 RJ45 (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Triple Prop (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Typical red mangrove with prop roots - characteristic of high salinity area. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Red mangrove prop roots - an extreme example. Credit: Small World.

Prop roots and epiphytes in the jungle on Isla Cocos. Credit: Small World.

C-130 Airplane, 4 prop, on tarmac at Roswell Air Tanker Base, NM. Credit: H.Parman.

Prop boat at the North Junction of Wapinita and the Deschutes River. Credit: Donald Robins.

El Farmacèutic Sempre A Prop Vostre : Aquí Hi Ha Un Professional De La Salut. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Prop.: Now here is a beautiful garment ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Three African-American women posed with studio prop automobile in photographer's studio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Comic book illustration depicting a diverse group of past and present Americans helping each other prop up a tower wrapped in an American flag beneath a rainbow, following the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, New York City] / E. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Lemonade stand" Mr. Hersey, Prop. and Mr. O'Reilly. Credit: Library of Congress.

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He was the support of this child, and this child was his prop and staff.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Belgium

The Belgian Government reacted with poor macroeconomic policies to the 1973 and 1979 oil price hikes: it hired the redundant work force into the public sector and subsidized ailing industries--coal, steel, textiles, glass, and shipbuilding--in order to prop up the economy. (references)

Ukraine

Ukraine has recovered from the massive capital outflow caused by the financial crisis of 1998. As a result of the crisis, reserves plummeted in 1998 to less than a third of their level in the previous year - despite very heavy international borrowing to prop up the reserves position. (references)

Vietnam

Random and frequent price fluctuations are common, as many local distributors and wholesalers under-cut prices to achieve a faster turnover or withhold goods to prop up prices. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "prop": mine prop ♦ pit prop ♦ prop agent ♦ prop apertrure ♦ prop drawer ♦ prop oneself against ♦ prop oneself up ♦ prop plat ♦ prop retriever ♦ prop root ♦ prop shaft ♦ prop up ♦ prop up street corners ♦ prop up temporarily ♦ shot prop ♦ single prop. Additional references.

Beginning with "prop": prop-builders, prop-disc, prop-discs, prop-driven, prop-forward, prop-hooker, prop-jet, prop-jet engine, prop-jet plane, prop-room, prop-shaft, prop-up, prop-wash.

Ending with "prop": agit-prop, clothes'-prop, clothes-prop, double-prop, hand-prop, jet-prop, pit-prop, stage-prop, turbo-prop, twin-prop, vine-prop.

Albanian

përkrahje (abetment, advocacy, aliment, backing, backup, boost, buttress, championship, espousal, Favor, favour, furtherance, intercession, paternalism, patronage, promotion, protection, push, support), objekte skene, mbështetëse (backrest, bearer, bracket, buttress, console, crutch, rack, reinforcement, rest, saddle, shore, stanchion, stand, support, supporter), helikë (propeller, rotor, screw, screw propeller). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قوى (anneal, be fortified, be more powerful, become mighty, become stronger, beefy, boost, brace, cogent, confirm, consolidate, enforce, fasten, fibrous, fortify, freshen, great, grow stronger, harden, hefty, heighten, help, heroic, in power, innervate, intensify, invigorate, nerve, reinforce, sinew, stiffen, strengthen, support, sustain, tighten), ‏تأيد, ‏سناد (bearing, mounting, stock, strut, support), ‏سند (back, backlog, bolster, instrument, obligation, policy, repose, script, shore, support, sustenance), ‏عمود (armature, column, perch, pier, pillar, pit, pole, post, stake, standard, stock), ‏عصا (cane, leg, perch, pole, staff, stave, stick, switch, tally, truncheon), ‏ركيزة (crutch, mounting, outrigger, pier, pillar, stanchion, stilt, string, strut), ‏دعم (back, back up, backing, backup, bolster, boost, buttress, carry, consolidate, encourage, encouragement, favor, favour, fuel, hold, put up, reinforce, rest, second, shore, stanchion, stand up for, stick by, subsidize, support, take sides, truss, underpin, uphold, upholding), ‏دعامة (abutment, armature, backlog, beam, brace, crutch, hold, leg, pier, pillar, shore, slip, slipway, staff, stanchion, stick, stock, strut, support). (various references)

Bulgarian 

упование (anchor, dependence, expectance, expectancy, reliance, reposal, trust), реквизитор (property man, property-master), реквизит (properties), опора (abut, anchor, anchorage, backlog, bearer, bulwark, buttress, column, cradle, crutch, dependence, faith, foothold, holder, jamb, lodgement, lodgment, mainstay, palladium, pillar, purchase, rampart, rest, rock, roothold, sinews, staff, stand by, stay, stock, stronghold, support, tower, underpinning), подставка (chock, horse-block, jamb, mounting, pedestal, rest, seat, sole, stand, standard, stock, support), подкрепа (advocacy, aid, backing, championship, comfort, corroboration, help, maintenance, patronage, promotion, support, sustentation, umbrella, yeoman service), подпорка (baluster, carrier, leg), подпорен стълб, подпорен зид, подпора (abut, abutment, brace, bracing, bracket, counterfort, jamb, pillar, post, puncheon, rest, shore, sprag, stand, stock, stull, support, tree, upright), перка (brace and bit, bucket, fin, flapper, paddle, palm, propeller, vane). (various references)

Chinese 

拄 (post), �"�柱 (Props). (various references)

Czech

podpìra (abutment, brace, bracket, strut, support), podepřít (brace, buttress, corroborate, prop up, shore up, stake, support, underlay, underpin), opora (anchor, backbone, bulwark, buttress, foothold, footing, footling, pillar, staff), opírat. (various references)

Danish

pitprop (mine prop, mine timber, mining timber, pillar, pit prop, pit timber, pitprops, post, stull), stoette (shore, skore, stanchion), stålsøjle, støttepæl (stake), minetoemmer (crossbar, footer, footlid, holing block, lagging, mine prop, mine timber, mining timber, pillar, pit prop, pit timber, post, split, sprag, strut, stull, timber chock), minetømmer (mine prop, pillar, pit prop, pitprops, stull), grubetræ (mine prop, pillar, pit prop, pitprops, stull), afstivningsmiddel (prop agent, proppant, propping agent), afstiver (stiffener). (various references)

Dutch

stut (support), steun (support), leuning (balustrade, banisters, parapet, railing, support), drager (support). (various references)

Esperanto

apogilo (support). (various references)

Farsi 

پایه (Base, Basis, Bedrock, Buttress, Cantilever, Column, Degree, Ground, Groundwork, Leg, Mark, Measure, Mount, Outrigger, Phase, Pillar, Root, Sill, Stage, Stalk, Stanchion, Status, Stock, Stratum), پشتیبانی کردن (Aid, Champion, Countenance, Rally, Second, Support), نگهدار (Backer, Buttress, Keeper, Looker, Patron, Protector, Stanchion, Tenter), نگهداشتن (Hold, Imprison, Restrain, Sustain), حاءل کردن یاشدن , حاءل (Buffer, Buttress, Guard, Louver, Shutter, Stanchion, Stay), تیر (Arrow, Bar, Dart, Gunshot, Ledger, Lug, Mast, Perch, Shaft, Shot, Spike, Staff, Stanchion, Staple, Timber). (various references)

Finnish

tuki (brace, instep support, mainstay, strut, support), pönkkä (strut, support), kannatin (support). (various references)

French

support. (various references)

Frisian

lining (support). (various references)

German

Stütze (aid, bastion, brace, dole, help, linchpin, mainstay, pillar, rest, support, sustainer, welfare), stempel (brand, cachet, die, hallmark, imprint, Mark, pestle, pistil, piston, plunger, postmark, print, punch, seal, stamp). (various references)

Greek 

στήριγμα (abutment, bearer, bearing, brace, cleat, foothold, purchase, rest, stanchion, stay, stays, support). (various references)

Hebrew 

משען (abutment, anchor, brace, buttress, rest, staff, stay, support), מסע�" (arm, buttress, support), ל�"שען (lean, recline, rely, rest), ל�"שעין (lean, recline, rest), לסמוך (bank on, count on, depend, dweel in, lean upon, reckon on, recline, rely, support, trust), תמוכ�" (bulwark, post, strut, support), תתמוכת (bulwark, support). (various references)

Hungarian

támasz (bay, bearer, buttress, help, purchase, shoulder, staff, stanchion, stay, steady, strut, succour, support, supporter). (various references)

Indonesian

tumpuan (center, focus, pillar), menyangga (absorb, buffer, buttress), menunjang, ganjalan (a wedge, mounting, support), andukan (sling). (various references)

Italian

sostegno (backing, brace, crutch, hold, sponsorship, strut, support), puntello (stanchion, support). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突張り (bar, strut, support, thrust), 突っ張り (bar, strut, support, thrust), �"�柱 (brace, fulcrum), �"�え (stay, support), コロイド�'子 (coliseum, colloidal particle, Colosseum, corona, croquette). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しちゅう (brace, fatal situation, fulcrum, in the city, larva), ささえ (stay, support), つっぱり (bar, strut, support, thrust), コロップ . (various references)

Korean 

버팀대 (brace, braces, Props). (various references)

Manx

cur ny shassoo rish, cur bhut da, but, bhut (support). (various references)

Pig Latin

oppray.(various references)

Portuguese

suporte (backing, base, basis, brace, bracing, bracket, buttress, cleat, column, crutch, foot, girder, hanger, hold, holdfast, lay-over, leg, pedestal, pillow, pillow-block, post, ribbing, socket, stake, stanchion, stand, stay, stock, stool, supporter, tie-plate), pontalete (prop agent, proppant, propping agent), esteio (anchor, bond, brace, bracing, mainstay, pillar, staff, stay, stud, supporter), estaca (cutting, pale, pole, post, rod, slip, spile, stake, stanchion). (various references)

Romanian

propti (bind, brace, house, shore, strut), proptea (pad, post, shore, stanchion, supporter), picioare (feet, pegs, pettitoes, pin, stump), susţine (advocate, affirm, allege, argue, assert, back, back up, bear, bear up, bolster, buoy, buttress, carry, champion, claim, contend, countenance, defend, encourage, endorse, entertain, Favor, favour, fortify, give countenance to smb., hold, hold up, maintain, pep, promote, reinforce, sanction, second, speed, sponsor, submit, support, underlie, uphold, vindicate), suport (bolster, carriage, chuck, foot, holdfast, Jack, leg, mat, Mount, pad, pedal, plinth, puncheon, reliance, shore, stanchion, stand, steady, stem, support), stâlp (adherent, backbone, column, pier, pilaster, pillar, pilot, post, pylon, shaft, spile, staff, stake, stanchion, strut, stud, support, supporter, upholder), sprijini (abet, back, bear, bolster, boost, brace, buttress, carry, carry through, countenance, encourage, endorse, forward, ground, help, lean, line up behind, patronize, recline, rest, second, speed, sponsor, stay, strike a blow for, strut, superinduce, support, take up the cudgels for, uphold), sprijin (aid, assistance, backing, comfort, furtherance, help, ministration, patronage, reliance, reposal, saddle, service, staff, stay, strength, succor, succour, support, supporter), rezema de, reazem (column, fulcrum, pad, stay, support, tower), mergãtor, arc (arc, arch, bow, curve, limb, spring, vault), ajuta (abet, accomodate, advantage, aid, answer, assist, avail, back up, befriend, benefit, carry, carry through, comfort, encourage, fillip, help, minister to, promote, push, relieve, second, serve, succor, succour, support, sustain). (various references)

Russian 

опора (anchorage, bearing, bracket, crutch, footing, handhold, mainstay, pylon, reliance, rock, seat, shore, staff, steadies, support, supporter, thrust), подпирать подпорка. (various references)

Scottish

prop (a prop), taic (a prop, dependence, proximity, support). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pribor (accessories, appurtenance, equipment, implement, materials, paraphernalia, properties, supplies, supply, tackle, tackling, utensil), potpora (backing, brace, buttress, falsework, help, stay, support, sustenance, sustention, trestle). (various references)

Spanish

puntal (brace, pitprop, puncheon, shore, stanchion, strut), rodrigón (stake), respaldo (back, backboard, backrest, backup, support), escora (list, shore). (various references)

Swedish

stöd (abutment, backing, buttress, console, countenance, crutch, endorsement, indorsation, indorsement, linchpin, litter, patronage, rest, server, stand by, stay, support, supporter, trestle), stödja (back, bolster, bottom, brace, countenance, endorse, fall in with, Foster, hold up, indorse, lean, stake, support, sustain, uphold). (various references)

Turkish

pervane (fan, Miller, moth, propeller, rotor), payanda (buttress, pier, pillar, pit prop, plank, shore, spur, standard, stock, strut, support), yaslamak (flatten, lean, prop up), sahne malzemesi, sahne elbisesi (costume), desteklemek (advocate, assist, back up, bear out, bear smb. out, bolster, bolster up, brace, buoy, buttress, champion, countenance, encourage, endorse, Favor, favour, fortify, give a leg up, give countenance to, go along with, help forward, hold up, identify, indorse, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, logroll, nourish, patronize, promote, root for, second, shore, sponsor, spoonfeed, stake, stanchion, stand, stand by, start, stick up for, strengthen, subordinate, support, sustain, underpin, uphold), destek koymak (chock, prop up, truss, underpin), destek (aid, anchorage, assistance, backing, backup, bolster, booster, brace, bracer, bracket, buttress, contribution, cooperation, corbel, countenance, crutch, endorsement, friend, indorsement, mounting, pillar, pit prop, reinforcement, relief, rest, rider, second, shore, shot, sponsorship, spur, staff, stake, stanchion, stand by, stay, stiffening, strut, support, supporter, supporting, sustenance, truss, underlay, upholder), dayanak (abutment, anchorage, base, fulcrum, ground, hinge, Mount, pivot, rest, shore, support), dayamak (base on, base upon, lean against, ply, ply with, prop up, recline, recline on, recline upon, rest, support), dayak (bashing, basting, beating, birching, caning, chastisement, corporal punishment, dressing down, drubbing, dusting, flogging, fustigation, hiding, lacing, licking, rod, rubdown, sock, the works, thrashing, trimming, wallop, whacking, whaling, whipping), atın birdenbire durması. (various references)

Turkmen 

direg (brace, strut). (various references)

Ukrainian

стояк (buttress, pile, riser, stake, stilt, strut, stud), стовп (belch, column, pillar, pole, post, pylon, staff), теорема (proposition, theorem), збити з ніг (floor, lay out), підтримувати (aliment, back, back up, bear up, block, bolster, carry, cheer, corroborate, encourage, favour, fortify, get behind, hold up, keep alive, maintain, play up, pull, push, second, sponsor, stand for, support, sustain, underpin, underset, upbear, uphold), підтримка (aegis, aliment, alimentation, backing, boost, cheer, crutch, egis, espousal, favour, pick me up, sanction, smiles, sponsorship, support, sustention, vindication), підпора (affluent, brace, bracket, chock, rack, upright), підпирати (back, brace, buttress, chock, shore, skid, stake, stanchion, strut, sustain, underlay, underpin, underset), пропелер (airscrew, propeller), притуляти (recline upon). (various references)

Vietnamese 

phục trang (property), người đứng mũi chịu s� o, cái chống (rest, upholder). (various references)

Welsh

ategu (abet, bolster, confirm, support), ateg (abutment, stay, support), atecbost, annel (bending, purpose, trap). (various references)

banda. (various references)

firmamenta, firmamenti, firmamento, firmamentum, mali, malis, malo, malorum, malos, malum, malumque, malus. (various references)

proppe. (various references)

estanchon. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prop": propaedeutic, propaedeutics, propagable, propaganda, propagandas, propagandist, propagandistic, propagandistically, propagandists, propagandize, propagandized, propagandizer, propagandizers, propagandizes, propagandizing, propagate, propagated, propagates, propagating, propagation, propagations, propagative, propagator, propagators, propagule, propagules, propane, propanes, propel, propellant, propellants, propelled, propellent, propellents, propeller, propellers, propelling, propellor, propellors, propels, propend, propended, propending, propends, propene, propenes, propenol, propenols, propense, propensities, propensity. (additional references)

Words ending with "prop": agitprop, malaprop, turboprop, upprop. (additional references)

Words containing "prop": agitprops, appropriable, appropriate, appropriated, appropriately, appropriateness, appropriatenesses, appropriates, appropriating, appropriation, appropriations, appropriative, appropriator, appropriators, apropos, bipropellant, bipropellants, chemoprophylactic, chemoprophylaxes, chemoprophylaxis, chlorpropamide, chlorpropamides, coprophagies, coprophagous, coprophagy, coprophilia, coprophiliac, coprophiliacs, coprophilias, coprophilous, coproprietor, coproprietors, coproprietorship, coproprietorships, counterpropaganda, counterpropagandas, counterproposal, counterproposals, cyclopropane, cyclopropanes, disproportion, disproportional, disproportionate, disproportionated, disproportionately, disproportionates, disproportionating, disproportionation, disproportionations, disproportioned, disproportioning. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prop" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: approp, Arop, Bpgroup, Brpo, kroop, krop, npro, nrpo, Perkpc, pmop, popr, Poropak, preop, prho, priap, prib, prip, proa, prob, probl, probz, prof, proj, prok, prol, promp, prool, proop, prope, proph, propi, propl, propo, propp, proppa, proq, pror, prot, prov, proz, prp, prrof, pru, pryo, rop. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pop, pro.

-2 letters: op, or.

+1 letter: props.

+2 letters: bopper, copper, coppra, hopper, lopper, mopper, popery, poplar, popper, prompt, propel, proper, propyl, pyrope, topper, upprop.

+3 letters: apocarp, apposer, approve, apropos, boppers, chopper, coppers, coppery, coppras, cropped, cropper, croppie, dropped, dropper, flopper, foppery, hoppers, hoppier, loppers, loppier, moppers, opposer, oppress, pampero, peopler, popcorn, poplars, popover, poppers, popular, porkpie, precoup, procarp, prompts, propane, propels, propend, propene, propers, prophet, propine, propjet, propman, propmen, propone, propose, propped, propyla, propyls, prosper, purport, purpose, pyropes, rapport, ripstop, shopper, soppier, stopper, stroppy, support, toppers, upprops, whopper.